7 Hollywood Spy Thriller Movies To Watch
Jul 10, 2025
When skilled CIA operative Court Gentry (codename 'Sierra Six') uncovers dark agency secrets, he becomes the target of a global manhunt led by unhinged ex-CIA mercenary Lloyd Hansen
Salt (2010) is an action-thriller starring Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper spy.
The Kingsman franchise is a series of stylish British spy action films created by Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic books The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
The Mission: Impossible film franchise is a series of American action spy movies based on the 1966 television series of the same name. The films follow Ethan Hunt, a highly skilled secret agent played by Tom Cruise, who works for the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), a covert government agency tasked with handling dangerous global threats.
In Tenet, a secret agent learns to reverse time to stop a future global catastrophe, battling a villain who can communicate with the future. Time flows forward and backward in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller.
Set in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin, who are forced to team up on a mission to stop a mysterious criminal organization from using nuclear weapons to disrupt the fragile balance of power Read Next Story
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